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Uncertainty Reviewed Again: It is such a good book, and I recommend it without reservation

Don Aitkin, author of Moving On: A Tale of the Millennium, also available here, and feted here, and reviewed here, has reviewed my Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

The Great Day Is Here! Uncertainty Meets The World

The Great Day---the Day yearned for by all humanity, or at least weakly anticipated by you, Dear Reader---has arrived! Let the trumpet sound and celebration begin! The release of Uncertainty:…

Statistics

It’s World Statistics Day! Death To P-Values, Hypothesis Tests, And False Ascriptions Of Cause! #StatsDay15

Who said the UN doesn't do anything useful? Courtesy of that august body, it's World Statistics Day! Official statistics help decision makers develop informed policies that impact millions of people.…

Culture

Academics Busily Purging Its Enemies, Real & Imagined

This was written a while back, and part become an item in the Insanity & Doom update. I would have trashed it, except that since the events detailed below, Gilley…

Statistics

Cluster Failure: Biggest ‘I Told You So’ Yet. fMRI Stinks

As reader Nate Winchester surmised, today, the biggest I Told You So Yet. Headline: "MRI software bugs could upend years of research: This is what your brain looks like on…

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On The Severe (And Unrecognized) Limitations Of fMRI

So this 44-year-old Frenchman---let's call him Jacques---presented for a "mild left leg weakness". The leg bone being connected to the hip bone, etc., it was eventually discovered that Jacques's "skull…

Book review Statistics

Preface to Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics

The book is now at a 15% discount at Amazon (I apologize for the price). Buy today. And buy again tomorrow! This will be linked permanently on the book's official…

Statistics

Regression Can’t Prove Discrimination

Anybody out there a lawyer, or do you know one, who is involved on the side of angels in these so-called discrimination lawsuits? Have them contact me. The argument that…

Briggs on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
hudbwu, Pubmed doesn't show it, alas, in the pictures anyway.
hudbwu on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
I would have prefered to also see a total number of papers published. Ah, maybe PubMed doesn't show that. I…
Cary Cotterman on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
I tried "diversity", "green", "new normal", "safety", "wellness", and "woke" and got similar huge spikes in the past few years.…
JH on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 14, 2024
Mr. Briggs, So, you've got a made-up example here, where the parameter effect size is included in the regression and…
Paul Murphy on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
For even more fun, try the antonyms - I started with "apathy" and "callousness" - ended up laughing loud enough…